Helen Case

For 45 years, Helen Case viewed teaching as an art, and in some instances, a calling.

Teaching, she says, “Is not for the faint-hearted, the indecisive,
the timid, the believer in the status quo or the one who is just seeking
a job, not a profession. Teaching is for those who really want to teach
and place the academic climate of their students above their own
personal desires. Teaching results when the teacher is a facilitator, a
seeker of incentives and a motivator.”

Helen began her teaching career in 1928 in the rural schools in
Butler County, Kansas. After eight years of teaching grades one through
eight, she moved to El Dorado, Kansas, where over a period of 19 years
she taught grades two, five, eight, and nine. For the last eighteen
years of her active teaching career, she taught high school social
studies at El Dorado High School. Helen earned both Bachelor of Science
and Master of Science degrees from Emporia State University and did post
graduate work at Wichita State University and Purdue University.

Special Recognition

2001

President’s Award for the Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser for the Butler County Community College